 I attended Earley St Peters Primary School, moved onto Bulmershe Secondary School (and then Sixth Form) before studying for a BSc in Business Information Systems (which was a degree in Management and Computing) at Thames Valley University in Slough. After University I worked as a Software Engineer eventually moving to Cambridge in early 2002 and slightly changing my role to be a Software Engineer/ Business Analyst. Currenty I work in the IT Department of Napp Pharmaceuticals on the Cambridge Science Park. I've lived in King's Hedges between 2002 and 2010 - first in College Fields (off Woodhead Drive) then at Nuns Way and finally in Augustus Close (just off Minerva Way). In 2010 I moved to Bar Hill, just down the A14 in South Cambridgeshire.
At about the time I moved to Cambridge I joined the Liberal Democrats as a deliverer. There are many reasons why I picked the Liberal Democrats - the top one is undoubtably their commitment to the European Union. In 2004 I married Petra Averbeck at Cambridgeshire Registry Office, on September 11th 2008 we had our first daughter Hayden Bethany Pellew, and our first son on December 3rd 2010. In 2007 I joined the Organising Committee of the Arbury Carnival (which due to boundary changes many years ago actually takes place in King's Hedges!). This was in answer to a call for local volunteers after a shortage had become so acute that the Committee had to temporarily suspend the procession part as everything was being organised by only two people! In 2008 I also became a trustee of the Arbury Community Centre (joining fellow Councillors Liberal Democrat Neil McGovern and Labour Arbury Councillor Mike Todd-Jones as well as other representitives of the local community). As part of this community-based role I also became first a Director and then Chairman of the Board of Directors for Arbouretum Cafe - the Community Centre's trading arm. In 2009 I put my name forward as a potential candidate in the Cambridgeshire County Council elections. The election was faught against a Labour opposition at a time when the national Labour governement was training in the polls (to put it mildly) and I won with 39.2% of the vote. Since my election I have become a Local Education Authority (LEA) Governor of Manor Community College, and in April 2010 I was elected as Chair of Governors. I am a semi-regular contributor to Google Knol offering mainly IT-related items, I have also provided help and support to Parliamentary Candidates in the 2010 election most notably Belinda Brooks-Gordon. In November 2010 I was elected as the Data Officer for South Cambridgeshire Liberal Democrats, I post I will be taking on the 1st January 2011. |
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